Significantly Polaris, Sheratan, and a host of other stars rose with the Sun 4 days after Achernar, the star (α) at the very bottom of the Eridanus River:
Earlier I might have made a mistake by placing Achernar (23.3) at Ca1-25 - i.e. in RA day 25 instead of in RA day 23. But the glyphs seem to illustrate a path up from the very bottom to the very top. 336 (Almuqaddam 12) - Assarfa 11 (155) = 181 = 472 (April 17) - October 18 ( 291). 181 was the number we discovered could best coordinate the heliacal rising of a star with another star rising at the other end of the sky, its 'nakshatra star':
Presumably the ordinary year beginning with April 17 (107) at Cb1-1 had its heliacal star positions in better accordance with reality than the ordinary year ending before the 107-day long season including February 29:
Maybe the distance from Polaris (26.6) to Benetnash (208.4) = 181.8 = ca 182 days could have been reflected in the calendar as a Sign of the leap year, when indeed e.g. April 16 (472) - 290 (October 17) = 182, although 335 (Almuqaddam 11) - Assarfa 10 (154) = 181. I have postulated there is no leap day in the manzil calendar:
From Achernar to Benetnash there are 208.5 - 23.3 = ca 185¼ days. My 'nakshatra stars' should come a few days (glyphs) before their 'heliacal stars', for example is April 17 (107) - 3 = 104 (April 14 in an ordinary year). It would have been relatively easy to predict 3 days in advance when 'the tablet of the years' should be turned around. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
